Po-Wei Chen, MD
Physiatrist / Indie Developer / Productivity Engineer
I’m Po-Wei Chen. Clinically, I focus on manual therapy, sports medicine, and ultrasound-guided interventions.
Outside the white coat, I’m a tech geek passionate about self-hosted servers and coding. My biggest interest lies at the intersection of medicine, AI, and the science of learning — I’m trying to use engineering thinking and AI workflows to fundamentally rebuild the nature of knowledge management and learning. Welcome to my crossover lab.
Education & Experience
- Current Physiatrist, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital
- Training Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital; Short-term training at NTUH, Taipei VGH, and Linkou Chang Gung
- Education School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University
- Memberships Taiwan Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Taiwan Association of Dysphagia, Taiwan Association of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine, Taiwan Association of Prolotherapy, Taiwan Pain Society
Expertise
- Manual therapy: D’Ambrogio (DAI) lymphatic/orthopedic manual series, neurodynamics (Neurodynamic Solution)
- Sports medicine: Exercise prescription, ACSM-CPT
- Interventions: Musculoskeletal ultrasound-guided injections, prolotherapy
- Rehabilitation medicine: Neurorehabilitation, musculoskeletal rehabilitation, dysphagia
Publications
Book Chapters
*Live Well, Age Slowly: The Six Paramitas of Health—How to Create a Joyful, Elegant Senior Life*
Ching-Hui Loh, Sheng-Lun Kao, Po-Wei Chen, Shih-Yu Liu, Chin-I Hsu, Yu-Chou Hung
September 2022
Talks & Media
Preventing Muscle Loss (2024/11/26 Tzu Chi Volunteer Morning Assembly)
Lie Less, Sit Less, Get Up and Move (2024/05/07 Tzu Chi Volunteer Morning Assembly)Journal Papers
- Chen PW, Su HY, Tu YK, Wu CH, Yeh JI, Chen LY, Peng CC, Loh CH, Huang HK, Lin SM. Association of bisphosphonates with diabetes risk and glycemic control: a meta-analysis. Osteoporosis International. 2023;34(2):387-397. (First author)
- Chen PW, Chen LK, Huang HK, Loh CH. Productive Aging by Environmental Volunteerism: A Systematic Review. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics. 2021;98:104563. (First author)
- Chen PW, Liu PP, Lin SM, Wang JH, Huang HK, Loh CH. Cataract and the increased risk of depression in general population: a 16-year nationwide population-based longitudinal study. Scientific Reports. 2020;10:13421. (First author)
- Chen PW, Lin CK, Liu WM, Chen YC, Tsai ST, Liu AB. A Novel Assessment of Baroreflex Activity Through the Similarity of Ternary Codes of Oscillations Between Arterial Blood Pressure and R–R Intervals. Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering. 2020;40(3 Pt 2). (First author)
For a complete list of publications, please see ResearchGate.
Conference Presentations
| Year | Conference | Location | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | APMEC (Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference) | Singapore | Oral presentation (Merit Award) |
| 2019 | Taiwan International Neurological Society Annual Meeting | Taiwan | Poster |
| 2023 | Association of Academic Physiatrists (AAP) | Los Angeles, USA | Poster |
| 2023 | Taiwan Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | Taiwan | Oral presentation (Awarded) |
| 2024 | ISPRM (International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine) | Sydney, Australia | Oral presentation |
Continuing Education & Courses
Accumulated over 150 sessions of seminars and workshops during my resident training. Below are highlighted courses in each area.
- Ultrasound and interventions
- 2023/12/17 NMUSIT ultrasound course
- Simulation lab: ultrasound-guided injections (Sep 2023, Sep 2024, Mar 2025, Sep 2025, Dec 2025, Mar 2026; 6 sessions in total)
- Prolotherapy medical missions: 2023 Hualien Tzu Chi · 2024 Mennonite · 2025 Taitung St. Mary’s
- Manual therapy
- 2024/04/04 DAI STLB Systemic Total Lymphatic Balancing
- 2024/04/07 DAI STOB Systemic Total Osteoarticular Balancing
- 2025/04/03 DAI SPLB Local Lymphatic Balancing
- 2024/10/18 DAI Energy Balancing
- 2024–2026 TAMM Precision Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Medicine series
- 2025/12/05 NDS neurodynamics Level 1
- 2025/12/11 NDS neurodynamics Level 2
- Sports medicine and cardiopulmonary rehabilitation
- 2022/05 ACSM-CPT personal trainer certification
- 2022–2024 Cardiopulmonary rehabilitation / CPET full course series (30 classes)
- Neurorehabilitation: rTMS seminar, rehabilitation robotics seminar
- Pediatric rehabilitation: Taiwan Association of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine course series (30+ sessions)
- International conferences
- 2023/02 AAP Annual Meeting (Los Angeles)
- 2024/06 ISPRM (Sydney)
Honors & Awards
- 2024 Best Teaching Resident, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital
- 2023 Best Teaching Resident, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital
- 2023 Oral Presentation Award, Taiwan Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- 2019 Valedictorian and Service Dedication Award, Tzu Chi University
- 2019 Best Clerk, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital
- 2018 Oral Presentation Merit Award, APMEC
- 2018 1st Place in EBM Literature Search Competition, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital
- 2017 National Outstanding College Youth
Contact
Support Me 🧋
The tools and services I build (open-source projects, PM&R continuing education radar, and this blog) are all freely available. If they’ve ever saved you some time, consider buying me a boba tea to keep the servers running 🧡
